Pentru prima oară în România și la Brașov, ”A True Irish Blues Legend”, Eamonn McCormack vine la clubul Rockstadt pentru un concert unic, vineri 24 ianuarie ora 20.00 !!!
Eamonn McCormack e originar din Dublin, Irlanda și e cunoscut ca o ”Adevărată legendă de blues irlandez/ True Irish Blues Legend”. De peste 4 decenii pe scenă, chitarist virtuoz, Eamonn are un stil energic, inventiv și exploziv, cu o energie maximă live. Rădăcinile sale muzicale și de concept sunt Slade, Cat Stevens, Neil Young și Rory Gallagher, cu care a și cântat. De fapt ultima piesă înregistrată de Rory Gallagher, este chiar cu Eamonn McCormack.
A plecat din Irlanda în America pentru a-și trăi visul, a cântat cu Cannes Heat și chiar și cu J. J. Cale. S-a întors în Irlanda și a cântat în diverse formule, pînă la cea de acum, un ”power blues trio”. A înregistrat pe disc cu mulți artiști de valoare de gen, de la Rory Gallagher la Jan Akkerman, Pat Travers, George Thorogood, Walter Trout, Johnny Winter, Nils Lofgren.
Coraline Fargeat's second feature The Substance (after her thriller Revenge in 2017), won best screenplay in last year's Cannes Film Festival. Should've won best actress for Demi Moore but they gave that for ensemble to Emilia Perez. No comments. But now Demi has won the Golden Globe, will be nominated for an Oscar and I hope she wins, she deserves that totally and More than that.
Note on Jan. 23d: Nominated for 5 Oscars, Coraline Fargeat for Directing and original screenplay, Demi Moore for best actress, make up and hair stilling and Best Picture ! My predictions, Demi and maybe best screenplay !
Dennis Quaid plays cartoonlike a caricature of a manager, Ray Liotta was supposed to play this part but he died before the film production. I think Quaid is better, 'cos he played a lot of straight characters, while Liotta was lampooning himself in a lot of his films.
Fargeat's film I found more digerable than Julia Ducournau's exploits, Grave /Raw and Titane, which are overdone and overbearing. Keep in mind, if a male director would've done this film in 2024, no festival would've touch it and he would've been "luggered" (or lapidated). Anyway, I don't think a man could've done the same kind of approach and message, it's a woman's film about women's condition in the showbiz industry, and not only, about aging and about the compromises you make in order to be noticed. It's a very superficial world and it fades out quickly, but the subject is treated with acidity, irony and black humor. And great body horror gore practical effects. The whole thing could've been summarized in the opening and closing of the film, with the story star on the Hollywood Boulevard (a great short imo).
The music is by British artist Raffertie (Benjamin but it's more like a sound design, pounding and very effective. Can't be listened separately tho.
See it in a cinema, for the sound design, set design, bright costumes (that yellow coat, that pink bodysuit), the cinematography (by Benjamin Kracun) and the visceral effect.
Also warning, not for the faint at/of heart, and sensible stomachs !!!
There are many posters for the film, all good, from the B&W to this kaleidoscope puzzle.
References galore: from Lynch's LA (shot in Cannes and Antibes no less), to David Cronenberg (The Fly is quoted tooth and nail ;), Brian De Palma (Carrie's blood shower), Kubrick's The Shining, The Elephant Man, Frankenheimer's Seconds, All about Eve, Sunset Blvd., even Zemeckis' Death Becomes Her.
As Demi Moore described the film: " a blend of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, Death Becomes Her (1992), and a Jane Fonda workout video."
A great and extended making of from Mubi (the worldwide distributor of the film buying it Cannes cos the original backer, Working Title, a division of Universal backed away ):
Update-24 feb. Demi Moore wins SAG award, The "Actor", which is the best barometer for the acting Oscars !
I wasn't expecting David Lynch to start this year of " I see dead people"...here he is playing John Ford in Steven Spielberg autobiographical The Fablemans (2022). I will post separately about my relationship with Lynch. Talked about him extensively with Christa Bell, his muse and last collaborator (their album, in 2024, Cellophane Memories).
“I loved David’s films. Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive and Elephant Man defined him as a singular, visionary dreamer who directed films that felt handmade. I got to know David when he played John Ford in The Fabelmans. Here was one of my heroes—David Lynch playing one of my heroes. It was surreal and seemed like a scene out of one of David’s own movies. The world is going to miss such an original and unique voice. His films have already stood the test of time and they always will.”
"There's nothing like the big screen. The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience." - David Lynch
Farawell David Lynch the Magician, white or black lodge, I guess you have your own, the David Lynch Lodge, there's a lady with a Log there and some guy, Bob, is the bouncer. Badalamenti plays the piano, Bowie's at the bar, Dennis Hopper sips his whisky, Jack Nance gets another bottle, even Tom Sizemore is aloud to come for a drink...
